Fluid control valve



H. w. OSBURN FLUID CONTROL VALVE June 15, 1954 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Original Filed July 17, 1945 INVENTOR.

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Original Filed July 17, 1945 F 1 E w /9 INVENTOR. A4: WARD W ask/MW Patented June 15, 1954 UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE FLUID CONTROL VALVE Howard W. Osburn, Detroit, Mich., assignor to Power Brake Parts Manufacturing and Sales Company, Michigan Detroit, Mich,

a corporation of Serial No. 237,7 65

6 Claims.

This application is a continuation of my copending application Serial No. 605,574, filed July 17, 1945, and now abandoned.

The present invention pertains to a novel fluid control valve designed primarily for use in the operation of hydraulic brakes or a fluid operated machine such as a punch or press, although not necessarily limited thereto.

The invention is herein described in connection with a riveting machine wherein the work is brought under pressure against a forming tool, or vice versa. The work with the rivet set therein is mounted on a support in the machine, and fluid pressure is employed for producing a squeezing and shaping operation on the rivet. Ordinarily the supporting part and the shaping part of the machine are brought together in a rapid movement on opening of the fluid control valve. However, if the relative movement of the part is slow initially, it permits the operator to make a final and more accurate adjustment of the work piece if necessary. The principal object of the invention is to provide a control valve whereby such interrupted. movement between the work piece and the forming member is accomplished.

For this purpose the control valve is so constructed that the initial opening movement thereof permits only a limited quantity of fluid to pass. The corresponding low pressure, or the slow building up of the pressure, brings the work and the forming tool fairly close together but not in contact with each other and with only very slow relative movement towards each other. The operator is thereby given ample time to make the necessary final adjustment. In fact, the full pressure is not applied to the machine until the valve is further actuated, as by means of a pedal or lever.

In the more specific embodiment of the invention, the valve housing is formed with a valve seat between the inlet and outlet thereof. A plug slidable in the chamber is adapted to close on this seat and is formed with a longitudinal passage through which fiuid flows when the plug is removed from the seat. The plug, however, carries an extension having a somewhat loose sliding fit in the chamber between the valve seat and the outlet and which maintains this relation when the plug is initially removed from its seat. Thus, on the initial opening of the valve, the flow is materially restricted by the extension and furnishes the preparatory relative movement of the parts described above. When the operator has accurately positioned the work, he actuates the valve still further, whereby the restricting extension of the valve plug is moved entirely away from the valve seat and no longer inter feres with maximum flow of fluid through the seat to the outlet.

The invention is fully disclosed by way of example in the following description and in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical section of the device, partly in elevation;

Figure 2 is a plan view thereof, partly in section;

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of the valve and pedal therefor;

Figure 4 is a section on the line 4l of Fig-- ure 3;

Figure 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Figure 3;

Figure 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of Figure 3;

Figure 7 is a section similar to Figure 3, showing a different position of parts, and

Figure 8 is a detail of the Figure 1, showing a rivet removing tool substituted for the riveting tools.

Reference to these views will now be made by use of like characters which are employed to designate corresponding parts throughout.

In Figure 1 is shown a curved frame member 5 having its base formed with a series of apertured ears 2 for bolting to a bench or other support. The upper end of the frame is formed as a boss 3 on a vertical axis into which is screwed a bolt or stud 4 secured in adjusted position by a lock nut 5.

A recess 6 is drilled in the member it from the bottom thereof in order to receive a tool, in this case a rivet grooving or beading tool 1. One end of the tool is reduced at 8 to fit in the cavity 8 and is formed with a peripheral groove 8 to receive a locking set screw l0 passed through the wall of the cavity 6. The lower end of the tool is formed with a circular groove H around a rounded tip l2 adapted to enter the hole of the rivet while the groove or bead is being formed.

Opposite the boss 3, the frame 5 is formed with a jaw l3 beneath which is formed a bell housing It providing a chamber as will presently appear. A bottom plate I5 is secured to the housing It by a suitable number of bolts I6.

Between the members l4 and I5 is clamped flexible diaphragm I! on which is mounted a plunger plate I8. A plunger I9 is slidably mounted in the jaw l3 in axial alinement with the tool 1 and has its lower end 20 reduced and received in the plate 18. A stud 21 passed through the diaphragm IT and into the reduced end 2t clamps a washer 22 against the diaphragm and thus holds the several parts together. A coil spring 23 surrounds the lower part oi? the member ii bearing against the jaw 13 and the plate 18 to retract the member l9 into the chamber 23 of the housing 14. Obviously, these parts are assembled before the bottom plate I is fastened.

The plate I5 is formed with a rearwardly extending tapped nipple 24 to which a pressure fluid supply line 25 is suitably coupled. The upper end of the plunger 19 is formed with an axial recess 26 having a relatively wide lateral outlet 2? through the wall of the member 59, for a purpose that will presently be described.

The socket 26 receives the shank of a rivet punch 30 formed at its upper end with a shoulder 3| that rests upon the plunger. The tool formed with a peripheral groove 32 for locking by means of a set screw 33 inserted through the wall of the member [9. The upper exposed end of the punch 31) is formed as a reduced cylindrical head 34 of such size as to support a rivet blank mounted thereon.

The rivet is first inserted in the parts to be fastened together, such as a brake shoe and brake lining, and in this condition the rivet is mounted on the head 35. By means of pressure fluid admitted into the line 25, the tool 3?] and the work are forced against the beading tool 1, whereby the rivet is flattened and grooved against the work.

Ihe valve mechanism for controlling flow of fluid into the line 25 embodies a substantially cylindrical housing ll! mounted on an enlarged fiat base 4! adapted to lie on the floor. An operating pedal 52 is mounted over the base and provided on its lower surface with lugs 53 piv otally attached to the base at M. One end of the pedal stops against a rest as formed on the base.

The chamber :36 of the housing as is reduced internally intermediate its ends at 4'1 to form restriction. At the end of the portion t? facing the inlet end of the housing is formed a valve seat 18 for a purpose that will presently appear. A lateral port 49 is formed through the thickwall ll and leads into a nipple 5% that constitutes the fluid outlet to which the intake end of the line '25 is coupled.

The inlet end of the chamber contains a slidable valve plug 5! having longitudinal grooves One end of the plug carries a compressible washer 53 adapted to close on the seat 48. Upon the washer is mounted a collar 54 on which in turn is mounted a smaller compressible washer the parts being held together by a screw 56 threaded into a plug 5!. The collar 54 enters somewhat loosely into the restriction formed by the wall 4?. A coil spring 57 moves the plug 5! towards the seat 48 and bears against a coupling nut 58 threaded into the inlet end of the housing 43 and receiving a hose 59 leading from a suitable fluid pressure source.

In the wall 47, at the opposite side of the port 53, is slidably mounted a pusher rod or tube 68 having an external head 6|. A lug 52 projecting from the lower surface of the pedal 42 carries an adjustable set screw 53 engageable with the head and adapted to move the member 85 inwardly on depression of the pedal 42.

The pusher Gil is formed with an axial passage 64 from its inner end which is adapted to seat against the washer 55. The passage 5:";

extends nearly to the head GI and communicates with a radial hole 65 formed in the pusher and constituting the exhaust port.

The pusher 69 is held in a suitable seal 68 fitted in the body (30 and is also supported in a bearing 6? fastened in the adjacent end of the housing. A coil spring 58 is mounted between the bearing 61 and the head 5| to retract the pusher 6B.

In the use of the device the spring 51 normally closes the washer 53 against the seat 48 and thereby closes the exhaust port @139 to pressure. lhe operator depresses the pedal d2 sufficiently to seat the inner end of the pusher 6i! against the washer and to move the washer 53 away from the seat 58 without, however, moving the collar 54 out of the restriction formed by the wall ll. The loose mounting of the collar within the restriction admits suflicient pressure fluid into the outlet port 49 and line 25 to lift the plate IS, the tool is and the work thereon towards the tool l. The elevation of the tool I is adjusted by the stud d so that the escape of pressure around the collar 5:; brings the work into close proximity to the lower end 01' the tool 1 and substantially at rest in this position. The slow movement of the work permits the operator to adjust the work accurately with respect to the working end of the tool. The operator then depresses the pedal further to remove the collar 54 from the restriction and permits full pressure to fiow through the grooves 52 and into the line 25 for further movement of the tool l9 under the high pressure necessary for the forming operation.

On the inward movement of the pusher 5%, the exhaust port $5 thereof becomes sealed in the bearing fi'i. Also, the inner end of the pusher seals against the washer 55, so that there is no escape of fluid through the passage The seal :33 prevents escape of fluid around the pusher.

When the pedal 42 is released and the pusher retracted, the port becomes exposed outside of the bearing 57. The pusher uncovers the outlet port 59, and the pressure beneath the diaphragm H is reduced to atmospheric through the passage 53. and exhaust port 65.

The device is especially useful as a master valve for operating hydraulic brakes. On initial pressure on the pedal 42, opening of the restricted passage is slowed down first by the compression of washer 55, and further by the gradual expansion or relief of the compressed washer 53. In this manner, the fluid pressure is built up slowly and gradually in the restricted passage before full opening of the valve, resulting in a smooth initial application of the brakes.

The device is also useful for removing rivets. For this operation the rivet punch 33 is removed, and the beading tool 1 is replaced by a simple punch 1E3 having a reduced lower end H. The work is laid upon the plunger is with the rivet over the cavity 26 and is brought to the tool 70 in the manner already described. The rivet, on being ejected from the work, falls upon the sloping bottom 25 of the cavity 26 and drops out of the lateral opening 2?.

Although a specific embodiment of the inven tion has been illustrated and described, it will be understood that various alterations in the d tails of construction may be made without departing from the scope of the invention as indicated by the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. A pressure fluid control valve comprising a housing having a chamber, a wall portion forming a restriction and a valve seat in said chamber, a valve plug slidably mounted in said chamber, a compressible washer on the closing end of said plug and adapted to close on said seat portion, said plug having a longitudinal passage from end to end, an extension from and movable with said plug, said extension having a restricted fluidpassing sliding fit in said restriction and movable away from said restriction and valve seat, said housing having a port positioned so that said extension lies between said port and said plug, means separate from and slidable toward said extension, and a compressible washer on the free end of said extension and engageable by said means, whereby to slide said extension and said means.

2. A pressure fluid control valve comprising a housing having a chamber, a wall portion iorming a restriction and a valve seat in said chamber, a valve plug slidably mounted in said chamber, a compressible washer on the closing end of said plug and adapted to close on said seat, said plug having a longitudinal passage from end to end, an extension from and movable with said plug, said extension having a restricted fluidpassing sliding fit in said restriction and movable away from said restriction and valve seat, said housing having a port positioned so that said extension lies between said port and said plug, and a compressible washer on the free end of said extension, a pusher slidably mounted in said housing and adapted to seat against the second washer whereby to slide said extension and said means, said pusher having a passage from its inner end and an exhaust port from said passage adapted to lie outside of said housing when the pusher is retracted from said extension, and means for sealing said exhaust port when said pusher engages said extension.

3. A pressure fluid control valve comprising a housing having a chamber, a wall portion forming a restriction and a valve seat in said chamoer, a valve plug slidably mounted in said chamber, a compressible washer on the closing end of said plug and adapted to close on said seat, said plug having a longitudinal passage from end to end, an extension from and movable with said plug, said extension having a restricted fluidpassing sliding fit in said restriction and movable away from said restriction and valve seat, said housing having a port positioned so that said extension lies between said port and said plug, and a compressible washer on the free end of said extension, a pusher slidably mounted in said housing and adapted to seat against the second washer whereby to slide said extension and said means, said pusher having a passage from its inner end and an exhaust port from said passage adapted to lie outside of said housing when the pusher is retracted from said extension, and a bearing surrounding said pusher and adapted to seal said exhaust port when said pusher engages said extension.

4. A pressure fluid control valve comprising a housing having a chamber, a wall portion forming a restriction and a valve seat in said chamber, a valve plug slidably mounted in said chamber, a compressible washer on the closing end of said plug and adapted to close on said seat, said plug having longitudinal grooves from end to end, an extension from and movable with said plug, said extension having a restricted fluidpassing sliding fit in said restriction and movable away from said restriction and valve seat, said housing having a port positioned so that said eX- tension lies between said port and said plug, means separate from and slidable toward said extension, and a compressible washer on the free end of said extension and engageable by said means.

5. A pressure fluid control valve comprising a housing having a chamber, a wall portion forming a restriction in said chamber, a valve seat formed on one end of said portion, a valve plug slidably mounted in said chamber and adapted to close on said seat, said plug having a longitudinal passage from end to end, an extension from and movable with said plug, said extension having a restricted fluid-passing sliding fit in said restric tion and movable fully away from said extension and valve seat, said housing having a port positioned so that said extension lies between said port and said plug, and means for sliding said plug.

6. A pressure fluid control valve comprising a housing having a chamber, a wall portion forming a restriction in said chamber, a valve seat formed on one end of said portion, a valve plug slidably mounted in said chamber and adapted to close on said seat, said plug having a longitudinal passage from end to end, an extension from and movable with said plug, said extension having a restricted fluid-passing sliding fit in said restriction and movable away from said extension and valve seat, said housing having a port positioned so that said extension lies between said port and said plug, a pusher slidably mounted in said housing and adapted to seat against the free end of said extension, said pusher having a passage from its inner end and an exhaust port from said passage adapted to lie outside of said housing when the pusher is retracted from said extension, and means for sealing said exhaust port when said pusher engages said extension.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 851,220 Bowers Apr. 23, 1907 991,550 Serrell May 9, 1911 1,144,758 Desmond June 29, 1915 1,657,658 Buford Jan. 31, 1928 2,254,253 Williams Sept. 2, 1941 2,311,806 Almond Feb. 23, 1943 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 362,573 Italy 1938 

